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Buyers ; | ‘ No. 
Thos. 3. Walker 130. 
¥,. Ae Luce 139. 
de de Heatherton 140. 
Urse J« Ms Mossman 444, 
E. Simms L426 
Geo. A. Travers 1436 
C. Klackner 144. 
EH. Simms 145. 
Col. He. Js Foster 146, 
f. Glendenning 147. 
Re Je LeBoeuf 148. 
Je G. Spurr 449, 
Mrs. J. ile Mossman 150. 


Price. 


8 200.00 


230.00 
390.00 


710.00 © 
420» O00 i 
295.00 oi 


359 2Q0 
410.00 
790.00 
65.90 
659.00 
650.00 
850.00 
450.00 
650,00 
720.200 
800.400 
610,00 


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Buyer. 

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He de Honez 

Bs HE. Dickinson 
Ym. Crawford 

0, Klackner 

Mrse de Me Hosanan 
W. Skimmer 

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Otto Bernet [Agentd 
Ge Elackner 

Be Sirms 

Cadelic Donough 
He Js Meniz i 

0» Bernet (Agent) x ty 
Miss PLN. Parso ne 
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Abraham Straus 


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110. = = 310.00 e Sitimner eae if a3 
Tlie. ° 325.00 Ve Davy | : 
112. 200,00 Snedecor & Co. 
113. ~ 280.00 irs. J. M. Mossman 
114.) 200.00 7, Austin 
115, 250.00 F. A. Luce 

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Price. 
456 67450 
AG. 45400 
A. 65400 
434 280.06 
496 75400 
50. 90.4096 
“Ble 67.50 
52. 99490 
Boe 90400 
54 * 110.00 
55s 60,.0¢ 
56e 122.50 
57. 285 400 : | | 
58, 95400 ty De Gs Rohife Ire 
59» 79200 Ps Baek Ot scaly anf fe 
60. 70400 ne eee bag ee: 3 
6le 70490 J. Hopkins ~ Sr 
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BEE A, Someter 46. 180.00 
<%, Willians 67» W000 He Re Ge Rohlfs: tee 
RTs B00 Weltemeyer Bros. 69. 199.00 Be He Keyes a si 
228. * 86400, Px anetin 706 75400 Ee J. Kelly oe 
2500 the, 7le  --'109400 Abraham Straus ck 
S608 45.50 Wt a Pe Conklin The 82450 CHAS « Rohe . « : 
Sl.  . 45900 -. Broadway Art Gallories 7+ 75_00 Re de Orr hg: 
ae . 80.00° Otto Bernot (Arent) ‘ie 100400 Those SC. Harden 
33. | 35.00 H, Williams 75. 400.00 Otto Bernet (Agent) 
34, 27.50 °° . t, Austin 760 755400 C. Kiackner i 
She 35.90. = Broadway Art Gallerios 77. See Holland Art Galleries — 
360° B4B0 “Bd Fu HoDonough 73. 225.00 Chas. Rohe | 
ole 37650 - Broadway Art Galleries 79 600.00 He He Dickinson f 
BO. 50,00 Be Dodd Ge = 90000 Ty Le Adame ; 
393. 27450 *.. Conklin Sl. 55.00 Chase Ee Heyman rh 
40. 27480 > Re J. Kelly B26 75.00 Mrse Je ie Mossman = « 
41, 59.00 Je Bolan 83.5 70400 de & Ropkings oA \ 
a 75.99. Se Williams Ske 50209 Ge Le Parker 


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200,00 
280400 
200.00 
250200 
165.00 
160,00 
140 @ 39 
070400 
290.00 
220.00 
410.00 
4109 
410.90 
500.00 
32000 
320.00 
375.00 
450.00 
540 400 
410.00 
550 600 
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B. Simms 
Geo. A, Travers 


Si de: ‘Klackner 
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T. Glendenning 
Re J. LeBoouf 


de Ge Spurr 


“os Urte Js Me Mossman 
Mr. White 


Mr. Whitmore 


As Cy. Van Glassbeck 


Hire, J. Mossman 

He gd Heniz 

Ym. Sittenhan 

We Re Tarmer 

Abraham Straus 

Otto Bernet (Arent) 

Je Hopkins } 
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Snedecor & Cos 

Mirse Js ii, Mossman 

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He. Js Honig 

Be Ee Dickinson 

He D, G. Rohifs Jr. 

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He da Heniz 

Mr. Hitchcock 

C. Klackner 

Mr. White 

Hel Heoniz 

Miss &. BR. Wellington 
« A. Luce 

0. Klackner 

Otto Bernet (Agent) 

Mr. Findlay 

OQ. Klackner 

We Te MeDowell 

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Broadway Art Galleries 
Otto Bernet({Arent) / 
We Williams 

3, Austin. 

Broadway Art Galleries 
Ce J. UeDonough 


Broadway Art Galleries 


He. K. Dodd 

FP, Conklin 

BE. Jd. Eelly 
Js Holan 

Ye Williams 

J. Ae Johnston 
Ee d. Kelly 


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Otto Bernet (Agent) 
E. E. Keyes 
Abraham Straus 
Chas. Rohe 

Re de Orr 

THOS « Ce Harden 
Otto Bernet (Agent) 
G. Elackner 
Holland Art Galleries 
Chase Rohe 

BR. E. Dickinson 
Us ia Le Adams 
Chas. E. Heyman 
Mrse de ite BOSSMAN 
J. #. Hopkins 

G. L. Parker 

E. E. Meylis 


7, Austin 


; 

| oo Sale Of The Finished Pictures and Studies 

by J. G. Brown, Ne Ae American Art Galleries. 
j _ February 9-10, 1914. 

3 Only prices of; 25.00 and upwards given. 


430 86 Bagg. PYyOS Spurr 


466 45.00 Henry Schultheis 

47. 65.00 Geo.B. Wheeler 

43.6 280.00 Henry Schultheis 

49. 75.00 &. &. Dickinson 

50. 90.00 Herbert A. Heyn 

51. 67.50 Jass Hopkins 7 

52. 90.00 Henry D. G. Rolfs dr. 
| BS» 90.90 R. Ae Johnston 


54. . 110200 Henry Schultheis 
55. 60.00 Weitemeyer Brose 
56. | 422.50 Rohe (Wm.) 

87. 285.00 VW. Williams 

58. 95.00 He D. Ge Rohilfs Jr. 
59. 970,00 2.2). 2 tt rt 
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79 of Late Artist’s or Sold 
for $7,231—$755 for ‘Watch- 
; ing the Parade.’ 


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“Three for Five,” a Small Boy with 

Carnations, Fetches $600; “Her 
Past Record,” $400. — 


The first half of the collection of 
pietures of the late J. G. Brown, the 
least important of the finished pictures 
and studies left by the artist, were sold 
at the American Art Galleries last even- 
ing, the seventy-nine bringing $7,281.50. 
The large sales guilery was crowded 
se that late comers could hardly find 
entrance, and there were no seats. The 
Buyers were largely dealers and the 
‘prices were low: The highest price of 
the Plena 8 Was $755, given by C. Klack-, 
ner for ** Watching the Parade,” a ty PR. 
ieal J. G. Brown picture—a group ol 
‘eight small boys and girls of the street 
‘lined up to see-the passing procession... ° 
“Three for Five,’’ a small boy with 
earnations, one of the largest of the 
pictures sold last evening, 60 by 36, 
}went to E. Dickinson for $600, ©The 
Holland Galleries paid $310 for ‘ Sym- 
athy,’’ a discouraged bootblack and his 
$225 for ‘Home Comforts,’? a plainly 
ressed old woman wearing a cap and 
| warming her feet in the oven of the 
range of the kitchen, which fs also her 
sleeping room;.‘ Her Past Record,” a 
farmer in blue overalls telling the. his- 
| tery of his old white mare to a fellow 
farmer, went to Bernet, agent, for $400. 
“M™he Deacon,” prim and wrinkled, 
went to William Crawford for ‘$359; 
“Thanksgiving Time,’ -mother at the 
pantry window preparing a pumpkin 
for pies, went to H. J. Williams for 
$255; a lot of newsboys scrambling for 
apers was a sketch for. ‘ The» Last 
dition,’ which went to Henry Schul- 
theis for $280. Some of the pictures 
went for as iow as $50. ; 
The sale will be coneluded this eyven- 
ing. 


THRONG OF BIDDERS 
FOR BROWN PICTURES 


14 Urchins, Brings Highest | 
Price of Sale, $1,610. ' 


$800 FOR ‘SIDEWALK DANCE’ 


“Troubles Ahead,” Two Boys Pre- 
| paring for a Fight, Fetches $790— 
Total for 155 Pictures, $31,607. 


There was another large gathering at 

the American Art Galleries last night of 
people who wished to see J. G. Brown’s 
newsboys and dogs sold: There was not 
a seat vacant and a crowd stood in thé 
doors all the evening. It was the con- 
cluding sale and the 155 finished pics 
tures and studies brought $31,607. The 
returns for the previous evening’s sale 
was $24,377. There were larger pictures 
and of greater importance than’ on the 
first evening, 
‘Heels Over Head,’’ a canvas 40 by 
60. inches, 14 urchins, bootblacks and 
others, and one of the number on his 
hands, his feet against the wali, “ heels 
oyer head,’ while the other boys look 
on, brought the highest price. of. the 
evening. It was the last picture sold 
and went to Abraham & Straus for 
$1,610. The sketch for ‘‘The Last Edi-! 
tion’ sold on Monday night for $280; 
the finished picture, ‘‘ The Last FEdi-| 
tion,” 44 inches by 32, was bought last 
evening by Col. H. J. Foster for $850, 
“The Sidewalk Dance,’? a scene in front 
of the artist's Forty-second. Street 
home, went to ' Steinnetz for $800; 
“Troubles Ahead,'' two sturdy urchins 
preparing. for a fight, went to Bernet, 
agent, for $790, and William Crawford 
paid $710 for ‘* Mischief Brewing,’ three 
small chaps, one of whom is whisper- 
ing a secret. Other pictures bringing 
the higher prices with the purchasers 
were: 


His New Friends, Simms... 6.240 ue. see ons $310 
The Veteran, J; G, Spurr, Albany... )..... 507: 
The Study: Hour, William Skinner.....: 310 
Ready for Sea, John D. Tomlinson.,... 825 
Village Blacksmith, Pindlay..... 2.212... 3d 
SeBuy an Pup tt CH COGK ve seats - 410 
Deb Times. Co. RACKHEer sss kis «ecole sree oars 430 


|} Money No Object, White. ..... PEE Se IA 410 


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AN 


ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 


FROM 9 A.M. UNTIL 6 P.M. 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


FROM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2np, 1914 
UNTIL THE MORNING OF THE DATE OF SALE 


THE FINISHED PICTURES 
AND STUDIES 


LEFT BY THE LATE 


J. G. BROWN, N.A. 


“*T do not paint poor boys solely because the public likes them 
and pays me for them, but because I love the boys myself, 
Jor 1 was once a poor lad.’’ 


TO BE SOLD 
AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


On Monpay AND TUESDAY EVENINGS 


FEBRUARY 9TH AND 10TH, 1914 
BEGINNING AT 8.15 O’CLOCK 


CATALOGUE 


OF THE 


Finished Pictures and Studies 


LEFT BY THE WELL-KNOWN 


AMERICAN ARTIST 
THE LATE 


J. G. BROWN, N.A. 


To Be Soup at UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


BY ORDER OF MRS. EMMA A. BROWN AND 
GEORGE W. DUNN, ESQ., EXECUTORS, REPRESENTED BY 
ARROWSMITH & DUNN, ATTORNEYS 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 


.ON THE DATES HEREIN STATED 


THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY 


AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 
NEW YORK 
1914 


CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance ~ 
may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid 
would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either de- 
cide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the 
purchasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in 
default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up 
again and re-sold. 

Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the 
time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of 
which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the 
risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary 
for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, 
and without otker than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit 

- of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such 
re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 

4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon pay- 
ment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 
A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays—be- 
tween the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 

Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American 
Art Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and 
only on presenting the bill of purchase. 

Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, 
of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 

5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business 
in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be 
performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association 
will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at 
current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, how- 
ever, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the 
acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 

6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the 
purchaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, 
and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in 
caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself 
responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 


Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 

7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Asso- 
ciation of the correctness of the description, genuineness or au- 
thenticity of any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of 
any incorrectness, error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not 
noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior 
to its sale, after which it is sold “fas is” and without recourse. 

The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot 
correctly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trust- 
worthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly 
catalogued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as cata- 
logued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby 
would become responsible for such damage as might result were 
his opinion without proper foundation. 


SPECIAL NOTICE 

Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties 
on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will 
be faithfully attended to without charge or commission. Any 
purchase so made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, 
which cannot in any manner be modified. The Association, how- 
ever, in the event of making a purchase of a lot consisting of 
one or more books for a purchaser who has not, through himself 
or his agent, been present at the exhibition or sale, will permit 
such lot to be returned within ten days from the date of sale, 
and the purchase money will be returned, if the lot in any 
material manner differs from its catalogue description. 

Orders for execution by the Association should be written 
and given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunder- 
standing. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the 
title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and 
when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects 
of art, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If the 
one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a de- 
posit should be sent or reference submitted. Shipping directions 
should also be given. 

Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session 
thereof, will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable 
charge. 

AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
American Art Galleries, 
Madison Square South, 
New York City. 


PREFATORY NOTE 


J. G. BROWN, N.A. 


“I do not paint poor boys solely because the public 
likes them and pays me for them, but because I love 
‘the boys myself, for I was once a poor lad.” 


J. G. Brown was born in the County of Durham, 
North of England, November 11, 1831. His father 
was a lawyer. Although young Brown showed talent 
in drawing from childhood, his father was adverse to 
his becoming an artist, believing that every boy should 
learn a trade. 

In 1845 young Brown was apprenticed to a glass- 
cutter for seven years, when he became a journeyman 
and followed his trade in Edinburgh, Scotland, where 
at night he attended the School of the Royal Scottish 
Academy, under Robert Scott Lauder, and in 1853, 
while at this school, he received a prize in the antique 
class. His teacher invited him to become his pupil, 
but his widowed mother being dependent upon his earn- 
ings, he was obliged to continue working at his trade 
of glass-cutting. From Scotland Mr. Brown went to 
London, and was about to take up portrait painting 
when he suddenly made up his mind to visit America. 

Sailing on the 24th of September, 1853, he landed 
in New York on the 11th of November, the anniversary 
of his twenty-second birthday, after a terrible trip of 
forty-seven days, during which nearly one hundred 
passengers on his vessel had died of ship fever. Soon 
after his arrival he secured employment at the Flint 
Glass Works, Atlantic Street, Brooklyn, where he 
worked for two years, devoting the day to his trade 
and nights and Sundays to the study of art. 


On September 10, 1855, he married Miss Mary Owen, 
a daughter of his employer, who died in 1867, and 
in 1871 Mr. Brown married his deceased wife’s sister, 
Miss Emma A. Owen, who survives him. In May, 1856, 
Mr. Brown rented his first studio, which was located at 
the corner of Clinton Street and Atlantic Avenue, 
Brooklyn, and engaged in painting portraits and 
juvenile genre subjects. In 1860 he moved to New 
York and secured the studio of George H. Boughton 
in the building No. 51 West Tenth Street. Mr. Brown, 
in recalling his first visit to Mr. Boughton’s studio, 
stated that the latter artist was engaged in painting a 
picture of a group of boys, to the admiration of a 
young friend standing by his easel, who proved to be 
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, then about the age of Bough- 
ton, who was in his early twenties. Boughton, who in- 
tended to study abroad for one year only, prolonged his 
stay and Mr. Brown became possessed by purchase of 
his studio effects and occupied his studio until the time 
of his death. Brown and Boughton did not meet again 
until thirty years had passed, when they met at a din- 
ner given to Boughton by the Lotus Club. 

In 1863 Mr. Brown was elected a member of the Na- 
tional Academy of Design. For a number of years he 
was a member of the council and for four years was vice- 
president of the Academy. He served seventeen years as 
President of the American Water Color Society and ten 
years as President of the Artists’ Fund Society. For a 
picture exhibited in Paris, 1889, he received honorable 
mention. His picture “The Passing Show,” exhibited 
in Paris in 1878 and in London in 1879, created much 
favorable comment, and made the artist known through- 
out the art world. Gilbert Hamilton in the Quarterly 
Review, writing of the American pictures in the Paris 


Exposition of 1878, said: “Every human being, no 
matter what part of the earth they came from, looked 
and forgot for the time being the cares and vanities of 
life in looking at Mr. Brown’s picture “The Passing 
Show’ ”; and Tom Taylor, in the London Times, said: 
“There is nothing in the whole exhibition (Royal 
Academy) superior to this simple unpretentious Ameri- 
can picture by Mr. Brown.” In his adopted country Mr. 
Brown received numerous medals and other tokens of 
recognition. To use his own words: ‘From the first 
day I arrived at 51 West Tenth Street to the present, 
I think I have been fully appreciated by the public and 
by my brother artists. The former bought my pictures 
and the artists helped me all they could; the older men 
made me an associate of the Academy in 1862 and in 
1863 elected me an Academician.” . . . “Messrs. 
Kensett, Suydam, Bierstadt, Cassilear and _ others 
bought my little pictures either for themselves or their 
friends. So my artist life has been a pleasant one: the 
artists of Paris and London have said the most kindly 
things about my pictures and have always hung them 
on the line when I have sent them to their exhibitions.” 

J. G. Brown died in New York, February 7, 1913, 
after a short illness, in the eighty-second year of his age. 


TALOGUE 


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FIRST EVENING’S SALE 


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1914 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 8.15 o’cLOCcK 


No. 1 


LITTLE DAISY > ae 


2 y, Height, 14 inches; width, 10 inches 
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. ~ Pudgy and pink-faced, in a purplish-pink sacque 
and pale green frock, a small girl large-eyed and 
serious is seated at the foot of a tree in a sunny 
landscape, her hands in her lap and a daisy-wreath 
binding her hair. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1863. 


No. 2 
TIRED 


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Height, 14 inches; width, 10 ati OWN 
FQ A small girl in a dark dress, with a gray wrap en- 


shrouding her head and shoulders, has seated her- 
self for a rest, altogether weary, on a box by the 
roadside—a heavy basket of apples on her arm. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 3 


LITTLE SUNSHINE b ae 


oy () os Height, 14 inches; width, 10 inches 


Climbing through a railing, in a sun-dappled land- 
scape-nook of trees and rocks, is a bright-eyed 
baby—somebody’s sunshine—in a red skirt and 
white blouse, facing the spectator. A very early 
work. . 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1863. 


No. 4 
RUNNING WATER 7). 5, J 63 
Height, 10 inches; length, 14 inches / 


dt / 
ay ~ Rocky boulders, gray and iron-rusted, dam a brook 
in the corner of a green and flowered fleld, the water 
coursing down between them to a _ broadening 

channel in the foreground. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 5 


THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS | 
ie 24) 50 Height, 12 inches; length, 15 inches ; 


An old-fashioned high-back sleigh with olive ex- 
terior and carmine inside—the means of many a 
joyous youthful ride—is going to pieces in the 
sun of summer, relegated to the boulders and flow- 
ering weeds of a country roadside in front of green 


fields and hills. 
Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1873. 


No. 6 


A TROUT STREAM Yervs va 


oe gu. Height, 15 inches; width, 11 inches 


A blue, gray and green trout stream winds about 
_a stony point in a pine forest of the mountains, 
men fishing in it in the distance and cows wading 
near the foreground. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1869 (or 1862). 


No. 7 ‘i (ere 


LIGHTHOUSE, GRAND MANAN 
or sos Height, 17 inches; width, 11% inches 


Tall, seamed and ragged gray rocks on the edge 
of a grassy foreground hill mount like sentinels 
above a calm blue sea extending back toward the 
left. On a point of land with a group of buildings, 
in the distance, rises a tall, white, conical light- 
house under a blue sky with purplish-gray clouds. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, 1877. 


No. 8 (fe Q 


FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY—STEAMBOAT 
“THOMAS E. HULSE” IN THE DIS- 
TANCE 


72 
Height, 11 inches; length, 20 inches 

The Palisades are aglow in the rich coloring of 
eh early fall, their tall cliffs throwing shadows down 
4? their banks under a westering sun. Scattered 
\ houses appear on the gentler slopes; and on the 
blue Hudson—its surface mirroring foliage and 
skies—is the ancient commuters’ steamboat of the 

title (with other craft). 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1865. 


No. 9 


BLACK BIRCH TREE © ie e ae ee 


2 : 4D Height, 20 inches; width, 12 inches 


Rising out of the picture from a lightly shadowed 
foreground, a group of birches with delicate 
} interlaced branches and bright green leaves are 
‘seen picturesquely against a yellowish sunlight glow. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 10 


WHITE BIRCH TREE—NEW HAMPSHIRE 


be hee Height, 20 inches; width, 12 ge te og Spee 
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Standing in a green, rolling field, a sturdy birch 
tree of triple trunk rises out of the picture. Two 
figures appear in the distance, lying in the shadow 
on the grass, and others are in a wagon disappear- 
ing over a hill. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 11 
A BRUNETTE ue bee | 


p) 0 fo Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches 


Half-length portrait of a dignified young woman of 
dark complexion and rich dark hair. She wears a 
white satin décolleté gown with tight bodice and 
puffed elbow sleeves, and has decked her hair with 
a red rose and green leaf. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1893. 


No. 12 
TIRED OUT L, : 
(Panel) f eae. 
PE d a Height, 16 inches; width, 1134 inches 


With the evidence of his industry by his side—a 
bushel basket full of firewood—a tired but happy 
bare-footed boy in blue trousers and white shirt is 
seated on the step before the half-open Dutch door 
of his home, resting, an elbow on his knee and look- 
ing smilingly at the spectator. 


No. 138 


_ COOLING HER TOES fe yy 

| } d bon Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches ( Aertel 
| Against a dark, conventional landscape background 

a chubby little girl with golden hair, in a crimson 

skirt and white waist, with fat legs and rounded 

7 shoulders bare, is seated with one foot dipped into 


a pool and the other foot, crossed on her knee, 
held where water trickles on it from a trough. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


On the back: “ ‘Cooling Her Toes,’ by J. G. Brown, N. Y. Copy- 
right reserved.” 


No. 14 
SUNSET (70 Q 
if » 5 are. Height, 12 inches; length, 20 inches 2 


The sun is sinking amid dark and glowing cloud 
strata beyond low hills, down whose broad flank 

_ comes a red path of refracted light. Along the base 
of the hills is the silvery streak of a stream. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, 1865 (or 1861). 


No. 15 


AUTUMN LANDSCAPE—SHELBURNE, VT. 


xe) rp at ou Height, 211% inches; width, 1 ee, 


Hilltops and mountains rise all about an expansive 
landscape through which winds a narrow, flat valley 
threaded by a winding river. A broad hillside is 
ablaze with autumn color, across the valley is a 
village, and nearer by rises a jet of steam and 
smoke from a locomotive. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 16 


IN THE MAINE WOODS 


ma J ie Height, 211% inches; width, 13% ee 

On the right a large wn LB aLY 
curious curves grows about a gray and mossy rock 
at the edge of high land. Before it and on lower 
land at the left, and all around, are other slender 
trees, with gray bark and green leaves, while the 
green ground vegetation is intermingled with warm 
browns. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 17 


_ EARLY TO THE PLOW 


jie oc Height, 15 inches; length, 21 eaten 


On a sunny green with daisies near a farmyard 
; fence three children are at play, the youngest, 
} hardly more than a baby, driving a plow which an- 
other child makes believe haul. Painted in the 
Adirondacks. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1875. 


No. 18 
VERMONT WOODS 


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Height, 14 inches; ergs 23 inches 


Through a cleft in a rocky hillside a rilf/ flashing 
white in the sunlight descends abruptly to a still, 


dark pool. The Poke are partly overgrown with 
herbage, and the scant soil on their tops supports 
a young forest of slender saplings. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 19 
CAMP IN VERMONT | 


opie Height, 144, meg 23 inehes i, 
y, { d AVE 


All that is visible of the camp 1s the fire of huge 
logs, with a steaming kettle suspended on a dead 
branch, which tells of neighboring human presence. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1879. 


No. 20 
CAMP IN THE MAINE WOODS 


afm 
In an open space under a hill greén with bush and 
trees a camp has been set up with poles cut in the 
neighborhood. <A fire glows under a big kettle. 
Beyond are pines and a tree of red foliage. 


Height, 1414 inches; length, 23 inches 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1879. 


No. 21 
THE COTTAGE GATE 


(aes eae oe Height, 15 inches; ls... as Was 


Back of a gray rail fence with an open gateway is a 
vine-covered home in the country, doors and win- 
dows open on a sunny summer day. In front of 
and beside it the brightly colored blossoms of old- 
fashioned gardens glow in the sunshine. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 22 
ON THE HILLTOP 


a4 Height, 23 inches; width, 15 inejes : 

: 7 2 a eB Aes os 
. On-the top of a green hill near the corner of a 

grain-field is a little girl in pink. She has plucked 

some of the ripened yellow grain-stalks which wave 

over her head with her long hair, in a strong wind 

which blows her skirt and sash aside. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


Now23 


“WALK IN” 


— 


f ass Height, 231% inehes; width, 15 inches Oat 
A hospitable you i 1 


century dress stands at the open pickdt/gate before 
a green-embowered house in the courttry—flowers 
about the door, and the shadowed ground mottled 
with sunlight, as are her own face and figure— 
bidding fair entrance, with a smile and welcoming 
gesture. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 24 


WOODS IN SULLIVAN COUNTY, NEW YORK 


3 1) “Height, 234, inches; Ce 15 wiry f Vy, 


Tall trees with gray an usytown trunks rise 
out of the picture, in the foreground, at the edge of 
a stony pond and stream. Moldering logs of fallen 
trunks lie at their base. Across the background 
beyond the water, misty trees appear against a 
green and yellow hillside obscured in a sunny haze. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1874. 


No. 25 
WOODS AT HUNTINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS 


Height, 231, inches; width, 154% alge 
On mis other side of a small pool in a green and 
i brown foreground partly in shadow, tall and slender 
| white birches rise in varying lines out of the picture, 
growing on a hillside dappled with sunshine. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, 1874. 


No. 26 


THREE FISHERMEN—LAKE hee big he 


soe _ Height, 2314 inches; width, 1 ies 
Two children and a man, each for himself, ogee 
satisfied and happy, are fishing on the shore of ’a 
silvery lake amid green rounded hills and fringed 


with trees. 
Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1873. 


No. 27 


WATERFALL, HUNTINGTON, MASS. 
oS dg ‘= Height, 15 itty 231, inches 


Brg 
Emerging around the shoulder ofa dark, rocky hill 
on the right, a brook comes tumbling in’ white foam 
down a shelving bed to a pool dark in the shadow 
of the hill, but filled with varying reflections from 
surrounding woods. . 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 28 
STUDY OF A NUDE 


cage é Height, 231%, inches; mee Ceres 
Beside a shelf of rock in a green sunny dell in a — 
wood bordering a stream, a young woman with jet 
black hair and rosy cheeks is standing nude, turned 
toward the left, three-quarters front, her face seen 
_in profile. 
Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 29 


— WATERFALLS, NORTH SANDWICH, N. H. 
Dia ee Height, 231% inches; width, 15,jnch 


Issuing high in the center of the composition from 
the midst of a green wood rising out of the picture, 
a brook comes out into a sunlit, rocky gorge and 
descends in a white cascade to a rippling pool in a 
stony foreground. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 
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No. 30 


PLAYING ON THE SANDS, SOUTHAMPTON, 
LONG ISLAND 


LL TS Height, 231, inches; width Mis os 


Full-length figure of a little girl in white standing 
alone on a broad beach in brilliant sunshine, drop- 
ping sand into a green pail, her head bent slightly 
forward so that the chubby, smiling face is in 
transparent shadow. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


Wo,’ 31 


THINKS HE’S LOST 
ub ce Heighty24 inches; width, 151, inchgs L h 0, 


On the far side of a large tree infA luxuriant wood 
a small boy stands crying in despair, as he imagines 
himself lost, while in front of the tree is his nurse, — 
a comely young woman, who has hidden from him 
to tease him. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1872. 


No. 32 


IN THE MOUNTAINS, SHELBURNE, VT. 


ey ae Height, 16 inches; length, 26 "ty, 
( Ly 
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Tall mountains lift their blue peaks among t 

clouds, and rolling green hillsides before them de- 
scend to a peopled valley through which a river 
winds amid fertile fields. In the foreground some 
of the nearer trees have taken on the red hues of 


fall. 
Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 33 
THE BATHER 
a é Height, 24 inches; width, 16 inches = 
. ey aa 9g _ ye 
A young woman of rounded figure, her black hair 
falling at her back, is standing nude in a shallow 
pool, facing the left three-quarters front, one arm 
upraised, her face turned three-quarters from the 
observer. She stands before a gray rock topped 
with green vegetation, against a shadowed forest 
~ background, the sunlight full upon her from the left. 


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No. 34 


A STUDY OF THE NUDE 
ay, S?____- Height, 24 inches; width, 16 jughes } 


On the green grass and in the sunlight, at the edge 
of a wood where shadows thicken, a young woman 
of stout figure stands nude, turned somewhat to the 
left, her back toward the spectator. The sunlight 
from the left falls upon her shoulder and side, 
and her back is modeled in partial shadow. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 35 


“HOW D’YE?” 


Ger 


Height, 231, inches; width, 1% inghgp ys 

Sold [th UA: 
A negro boy who has puiled downward/a Senaeh of 
a tree under which he stands is seeti against the 
light, smiling his greeting, his face in transparent 
shadow while a green and yellow field behind him 


is bathed in sunshine. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 36 


HEAD OF AN OLD MAN 


Height, 24 inches; width, $ aa 
Ce ier i ar Up 


The head and shoulders of an aged man of pro- 
nounced features, robust frame, and white hair and 
beard. His head is turned slightly to the left and 
the light from the left falls broadly upon his fore- 
head and face, his heavy brows holding his sunken 
eyes in shadow. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


IN THE SIXTIES 


3 vue Height, 24 inches; aa) inches ZV 
O 


No. 37 


military officer is making love to a woma 
mature charms, out in the open near a gro 
trees in autumn coloring. She is gowned in white, 
with very low neck and short sleeves, and wears a 
white flower at her breast. Her hat is held in her 
hand, its long red streamers dangling to the ground. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 38 


WOODS AND WATER 


ews te Height, 24 inches; eg ie 
A pool of a woodland brook between phenol 


dark green rocks is splashed with reflections of sur- 
rounding slender trees, and with bright sunlight 
striking down between them. A white sky is visible 
through interstices of the gray-green leafage. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, 1874. 


No. 39 


LOW TIDE 
27 su Height, 19 inches; ge pe 


Sparse grass with long spears grows on a gray, 
sandy foreground at the edge of a salt bay, where 
a heavy, black working boat is hauled out athwart 
the view, canted toward the spectator and all but 
blotting out sight of the sea—the sails and masts 
of a schooner visible above the higher side. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1877. 


No. 40 
A MOSSY BROOK 


27 bt Height, 19 inches; Bi Bs 
Green moss with gray patches Vcovers rocks tnd 
fallen tree-trunks about a brook in the midst/of a 
dank wood, sunlight brigh’*@ning the trees and 
stones in places and a broad still brook lying brown 
in a shadowed recess. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 41 


“HAVE A DRINK?” 


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Height, 19 inches; eae inches 4) 
Mitan 
An old-fashioned well in the pee its gray curb 
built high, located under a shady tree, nearly fills 
the picture. In front of it a golden-haired child 
facing the spectator, a tin cup in her extended 
hand, awaits the answer to her invitation. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 42 


THE RUNNING BROOK 
ps La Height, 20 inches; length, 25 inches ° 


VA AMA. 
Out of an open, light green wood, hazy and suffused 
with filtering sunlight, a rushing brook comes 
around a rocky shoulder in the side of a ravine, 
and tumbles in white splashes over a bed of broken 
rocks to a broad placid pool. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 43 
IN THE RAVINE 


Lt 4 ee Height, 25 inches; Te. 20 inches 


In a thick wood of slender trees 4/rocky ravine 
cleaves the landscape, trees growing on its slopes 
and finding foothold between and atop of huge rock- 
shelves and boulders. Sunlight glints from trunks 
and rocks and the green leaves of ground vines, 
and a rill trickles down to a shadowed pool. 


Signed at the bottom, left of center, J. G. Brown, 1874. 


No. 44 
THE DEBUTANTE 


3 7 se Height, 30 inches; wig 2 Wa 
Three-quarter length portrait of(a handsome yoxmg 

. lady, tall and graceful, standing before a light, 
neutral background, facing the spectator, her 
supple arms folded at her back. She wears a high- 
waisted gown of grayish silk, lace-trimmed, décolleté 

and with shoulder-sleeves ; her head is poised slightly 

on one side, and a single red flower adorns her 


blond hair. 


Signed at the lower right, Copynicut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 45 


A MOUNTAIN BROOK, NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 


a Height, 30 inches; width, 20 - f4 
hams a rocky chasm in the ae sfc 
roundings of thick woods, a narrow brook comes 
over its shelving bed and in the middle distance 


plunges in white foam down to a placid and 
shadowed pool, sheltered among the rocks. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 46 


A VERMONT MAIDEN 


¥ Bee waht 30 inches; i 20 inches hh Atheets 
as A coe footed country- girl, fee ed hai hanging 

down to her shoulders, is sitting oW/ a stone fence 

in the foreground, facing the observer, with strong 

sunlight striking her on the right side and from 

slightly behind her, the near side of the face being 


in shadow. Receding in a hazy distance is a suc- 
cession of pale, gray-green round-topped mountains. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 47 


THOUGHTS BY THE SEA 


é eX Height, 25 inches ee 6D 1th 
Three-quarter length figure of a maiden fair at the 
edge of a boundless sea. She is seated on the end 
of a stone wall, facing the left, three-quarters front, 
hands clasped in her lap and wavy hair falling 
loosely back of her shoulders, looking vaguely, 


dreamily upward. She wears a loose, white lawn, 
short-sleeved gown adorned with a pink ribbon. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 48 


SKETCH FOR “THE LAST EDITION” 


otU ‘+ | Height, 25 nies width, 20 inchgy 


At the rear of a covered ns ag half a dozen 
or more youngsters are clamofing for their allot- 
ments of the extra edition of an evening paper 
which has just arrived. Some are coatless and the 


cap of one has fallen unheeded to the pavement 


behind him. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A., copyricut, 1911. 


No. 49 


STUDY FROM NATURE FOR “THE MAID OF 
THE HILLS” 


A bright-faced, keen-eyed, bare-footed small girl 
of the countryside stands perched upon a rock 
beside a winding footpath in the immediate fore- 
ground of a green landscape of valley and broad 
hills. She wears a red-trimmed gray pinafore over 
a white-spotted red dress and faces the spectator 
with the sunlight on her left side. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 50 


LOOKING OVER THE CROPS 


70 come Height, 25 inches; length, Agena A yA 
Seated on the doorstep of an outbuilding againet / 
which tools are piled, a vigorous old farmer in blue 
flannel shirt and patched trousers, a heavy cane in 
hand, is looking out to the left over grainfields 
not in the picture. At the corner of the building 
bushes are in blossom, and ears of drying corn hang 


near by. 
Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 51 


A GOOD OUTLOOK 
p 7 ‘<a Height, 30 inch@y width, % inch 


An old farmer in a gyay hat, with) a gray chin- 
beard extending undeyY his ears, stands in profile 
to the right in a corner of his barn, leaning on his 
hoe and looking out. Behind him a harness hangs, 
and straws straggle down from the loft. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 52 
RETIRED 


=) Height, 30 inches; yfidth, 25 inches ¢, MA 
Woe iC eran KO. 4 Meat Lf) 
Between the cookstove eee curtained/ // 
kitchen window, seated with his knees crossed ina 
high-backed rocker, an old man with snow-white 
hair and ‘“‘Galways” looks placidly at the observer. 
Outdoors is sunshine, but his working days are done. 
Behind him the coffee-pot is keeping warm, and an 
old clock is ticking on the mantel. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 53 


“HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL” 


v4 0 ree Height, 30 inches; ee) 


At a window with small squdré panés 
the sunshine enters, a venerable courtry housewife 
with knotted fingers, in a black rocking chair, has 
desisted from her Bible-reading, and bringing up 
old memories raises a hand toward her face, reas- 
suring herself with the solace of the sacred message. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 54 


SEE-SAWING 


ay 0 “—— Height, 25 eee 30 LE GUSTER 5: 


Under the solemn surveillance of a/white-breasted 
Maltese cat ensconced on the dodf-sill of a brown 
clapboard house, two boys are playing see-saw with 


a cord as they sit bare-legged on the gray porch. 
Signed at the lower left, Corpyricur, 1905, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 55 


TIME FLIES 
ls Mf bi Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 
pve 
In a humble house wi oors a woman 


getting old is seated in a rockin 
on the flight of time. Her loose brown waist is 
figured in white and her lighter brown skirt in red. 
Through a window green foliage is seen, and sun- 
shine strikes the white curtain in another room 
behind her. An iron ring betokens the cellar door 
in the floor. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 56 
THE VILLAGE CARPENTER 


y = i Height, 30 inches; width, 25 rt 
or a VY ee g 
In the brown shadowed tere of his shop, which 
is characteristically cluttered with shavings and 
tools, there stands at a bench near a window an old 
but active gray-haired carpenter, planing the edge 


of a board. He has pushed his spectacles to his 
broad forehead and paused to glance at the visitor. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 57 


; THANKSGIVING TIME © 


Height, 30 inches; width, Ee) inche 
a er : ae Deep 


In the pantry ‘of a New ieee farmhouse 
“Mother” stands in front of a: window about to 
carve a mellow pumpkin for the Thanksgiving pie. 
She is seen in profile to the right, facing the win- 
dow, in brown waist, figured skirt and apron—a 
‘dustpan and other familiar utensils hanging in the 
kitchen near the pantry door. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 58 
OLD FRIENDS 
Tea aa Height, 30 inches; ae ay inches I & Uc oY 
Seated in a Windsor chair in a woo ere 
room, against a brown wall, is an aged man, eine 


bald and with full gray beard, leaning on a stout 
cane, his dog nestling at his knee. 


Signed at the lower rigkt, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1910. 


No. 59 
AN OLD-TIMER 


y J mac Height, 30 i i; “yy (> inche 
Within a well 16 wooden extension of #/ brick 
house, an old white-haired and gray-be 
cheerful mien is seated looking squarely at the ob- 
server. Beside him on a bench are a lantern and a 
pail of apples, and on the wall behind him hang his 
coat, a bootjack, fire-tongs, etc., and a pair of dried 

ears of corn. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 60 


SUNDAY MORNING 


y, Ae Height, 30 aus ae: oe 
A farmer of refined, earnest features, with/ a mass 
of wavy gray hair, luxuriant mustache and full 
beard which meets his hair, is seated in a red rock- 
ing chair, the family Bible on his knees. He is 
minus coat and waistcoat, and his hands are clasped 
on the Book. He has turned his head toward the 
left and looks intently out toward the sunlight 
through an open door. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 61 
“SWING ME!” 

oe Height, 30 inches; wid 
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) a Been 

Ae, 
‘Sitting in a swing in an old barn with a fur res 
her bare feet just touching the heavy boards, a 
dark-haired child in a red, gray and brown dress 
looks appealingly up, asking someone to swing her. 
Green plants are pushing in through the cracks in 
the dilapidated wall. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 62 
WAITING 


;. Height, 30 inches; ag OED. V A 


Peering out through the partly opened green shut- 
ters of a window at his elbow, a bearded farmer is 
seated in a comfortable armchair, holding a small 
lapdog which also eagerly looks out in the direc- 
tion of its master’s gaze. A few books and a lamp 
are seen on top of a bookcase behind the chair, 
against a gray wall. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 63 


THE DEACON 
3 4 v4) AS Height, 30 inches; width, 25 Anches 


The deacon is a wrinkled eee his thin, pyim lips 
still firmly pursed though teeth have gone/ and left 
his mouth indrawn. He is seated, a cane between his 
knees, in a strong light against a dark background. 
His round straw hat is tilted back, he is scarfless, 
and his “three-piece suit” is yellow-brown and black. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1903. 


No. 64 


SWINGING IN THE BARN 
it os Height, 30 inches nine 25 inches 


From a swing suspended by chain and rope in an 
old wooden barn, a smiling little girl in a short 
white dress looks with a quiet smile at the spec- 
tator, the light from the open door striking her 
from the right and slightly behind her. Her school- 
books are at her feet, and a chopping-block and 
chips are at one side. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


on ag tine LE ET IE ee ee ste . 


No. 65 


OF DAYS THAT ARE GONE 


/ / reek hae Height, 25 inches; len aaa 
Beside a chair in his aes a retired blacksmith 
and wheelwright, his gray locks and beard care- 
fully brushed, coatless and in a clean white shirt, 
sits in a rush-bottomed chair gazing in retrospective 
meditation at his anvil—which is cluttered with 
various tools. His straw hat and bandanna are on 


the floor beside him, and a broken wheel leans 
against a beam. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 66 


OF OTHER DAYS 


/ ‘pat oie Height, 30 inches; nner alae 
In.the corner of a cottage room brea 
walls and beamed roof, a tired old man sits in a 
rocker before his lonely cot—covered with a patch- 
work quilt—his eyes on a bouquet in front of him, 
thinking of times that are gone. He is in his shirt 
sleeves in a strong light, which throws the extreme 
corner of the room into partial shadow. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


SCRAPING A DEER HIDE 


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Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


AT PEACE 
Wy oi he Height, 30 inches; width, 25 Anches 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 67 


Height, 30 Onn width y25 inches 


Painted against the light which comes th af 
broad open window in his heavily built “wooden 
workshop, a large man with a full gray beard and 
partly bald is scraping the hide of a deer—the 
whole interior composition in tones of subdued 
gray and brown. In contrast is the sunny land- 
scape seen through the frame of the window be- 


yond his head. | 


No. 68 


An aged woman, her white hair pha (tr 


deeply wrinkled, is seated in a tall-backed rocker 3 
a window in a rag-carpeted room. She is in deep, 
peaceful meditation, her hands clasped in the open 
Bible in her lap, upon which she has laid her spec- 
tacles. A white worsted shawl is over her shoulders 
and her work-basket and fan lie in the window em- 
brasure. 


SoD Ni te ot Agnnn Mighell eas 


No. 69 


i 
rf OLD FARMER OF CASTLETON, VERMONT 


e «« Height, 30 inches; width, incites 
mice ae. A 

Ei A farmer, old and worn, in shirt sleeves and/over- 
alls, his shaven face framed in his tousled/white 
hair and “Horace Greeleys,” is seated in his barn 
leaning on his elbows. A strong light from the left 
illumines his features. Behind him in the shadows 
a halter, horseshoes, a buck-saw and other imple- 
ments hang on the wall-beams. At the left a gray 
stone jug on a barrel catches a ray of light, above 
a lifting-jack. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 70 
EXPECTATION 


7 ve Height, 30 inches; width, 25 #4) eee 


A young woman in a loose white hofise-gown with ~ 
elbow sleeves sits in an embrasured window in f 
low-ceilinged farmhouse, one arm encircling the 
neck of a brown and white dog. At her breast is 

a single white flower and another adorns her dark 
hair. Both she and her pet are watching keenly 
out the window, through which are seen flowers 
and a sunny green incline dappled with tree- 
shadows. 


Signed at the lower left, Coryricut, 1905, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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SUNSHINE AT CASTLETON, VERMONT 
ats eo 


No. 71 


Height, inthes; pidth, 25 indie 
In the bright sunlight in a park or broad, well- 
kept grounds, in the country, before a background 
of large trees and thick foliage, a flaxen-haired 
young girl in a dotted blue dress and broad white 
neck-yoke peers out from behind a tub of blossom- 
ing plants set on the gray stump of a tree that 
has been sawn down. . 


Signed at the lower left, Coprricut, 1903, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 72 


A SUMMER AFTERNOON 


TX 


sO Height, 30 inchesj width, 25 inches 


An old lady of country type and dress, her dark 
gown of dotted material, and wearing a broad 
white collar. pinned with a red brooch and a loose 
black cap, is seated facing the spectator in a dimly 
lighted room with a strong light concentrated on 
her face. She holds a palm-leaf fan. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 73 
FLAXEN CURLS 
./ es Height, 40 inches; width, 2&~inc ef 


Before a dark background of neutral one, a flaxen- 
haired girl with a mass of heavy, 
falling to her shoulders, is seen at three-quarter 
length, standing and facing the spectator, her 
figure turned slightly toward the right and her head 
tilted shightly toward her right shoulder. A strong 
light illumimes her face and throws faint shadows 
} within the curling locks. She wears a dark red 
- hat with upturned flaring brim, and a plain red 
cloak and red gloves. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1902. 


No. 74 
LOCKED IN 


| Law o Height, 34 ia Bees th, 42 ine oes 
| Athen 


A red cow, a spotted cow with a white face, and a 
whitefaced gray cow stand facing the onlooker, their 
necks between the bars that lock them in line in the 
cowshed, preparatory to milking time. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 75 
HER PAST RECORD 
be Height, 34 inches; th, 42 inches // 
Lf tht 


In front of the brown-shadowed stall of am ancient 
white mare a full-whiskered farmer in blué overalls, 
his soft hat cocked over his ear, leans with elbow 
on knee and thumb pointing outward, telling of 
the animal’s fine days to an appreciative if genially 
skeptical fellow farmer in a ragged straw hat, who 
sits at the other side of the stall smoking a short 
pipe. Hay wisps depend from the loft. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 76 


WATCHING THE PARADE 
y. ae Height, 24 Bie «. ipches 


Before a dull red building with darkened windows 
a group of eight small street boys and girls—among 
them a newsboy and a bootblack as “end men”— 
are lined up on the gray flags, all facing front, 
their faces reflecting their various emotions over a 
passing procession—some smiling in _ pleasure, 
others looking on solemn and unmoved. 


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Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 77 
SYMPATHY 


ao yy 0 — Height, 311, inches; ert lana. ge Ali». | 
Weary and depressed, a bootblack in black breeches | 


and stockings, and brown shirt with a red necktie, 
sitting on his tool box leans his chin upon his hand 
and elbow on knee, looking disconsolately toward 
the observer and with the other hand patting his 
dog, who looks sympathetically up at him. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1909, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


\ No. 78 
HOME COMFORTS 


we, e: eee Height, 35 inches; length, 40 ee (re 
Bedroom and kitchen are oie gi reat bed show- 


ing at the left, and an aged woman in a cap is 
seated across the view facing the right, three-quar- 
ters front, warming her feet at the oven of the 
range—where a fire glows and the kettle is on— 
while she knits. Beyond her an open latch-door 
from a sheltered entry-way admits the daylight. 
She is in dark brown and black with a gray apron. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. | 


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No. 79 


“THREE FOR FIVE” 


: oT at Height, 60 OC Lehane, j 
A small boy in knee breeches, 1S W ite flannel shirt 


open at throat and wrist, stands before the corner 
of a gray pillared wall, looking upward appealingly 
and holding up three carnations, from a large bunch 
of them in his other hand. tole 


Signed at the lower left, Coprriaut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


SECOND anp LAST EVENING’S SALE 


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1914 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT~-8.15 o’cLOCK 


No. 80 
HAD GOOD LUCK 
70 6 Height, 20 inches; width, 


- Happy and smiling in healthy ‘fatigue, a bright- 
faced, bare-footed young girl in an old-pink frock 
and white apron, is coming out of a wood into a 
sunny green field, carrying a large tin milkpail full 
to the brim of freshly gathered raspberries. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 81 


MAKING HOUSES OF PIGY SOUTHAMRTON 
BEACH 


eo 
Height, 20 inches; width, 14 thas a 


Out on a broad beach by the ocean-side a little girl 
i. in white with a white sunbonnet and red stockings 
| is building houses in the glowing yellow sand. Be- 
yond her, other figures are seen along the beach. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 82 


COOLING THEIR TOES 


Vis ae ee ee eeadais 
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Seated and standing on Krownish-green rocks where 
a cool woodland stream descends in a miniature fall, — 


two bare-legged children, one girl a little older than 
her companion, are dipping their feet into the in- 
viting water. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 83 


STUDY OF THE NUDE 
) 0 teas Height, 20 inches; width, inches ay 


‘@, -/ 


A young girl budding into womanhood is/seated on 
a greensward before a neutral 
tive of a wood. She is turned toward the left, her 
figure three-quarters front and her face seen in pro- 
file. Her wavy brown hair is falling over her shoul- 
ders. The sunlight falling from the right throws 
parts of the supple, warm body into transparent 
shadow. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


ackground sugges- _ 


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WAITING FOR EVE ce: Ce ee 


ood, ‘© —- Height, 22 inches; width, 15 inches 


The unseen sun is sinking behind a distant green 

hill, and in the foreground against a gray farm 

fence of broad boards a bare-footed farmer’s boy 

with a feather in his tattered straw hat—one hand 

in his pocket—stands expectantly, holding a fine 
- rosy-cheeked apple. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 85 


TICKLISH BUSINESS a yy 
LL 6. Height,-23 inches; width, 141/, inches 


Much to her chagrin and clearly evident discomfort, 
a flaxen-haired small girl in a pink frock, standing 
beside a blossoming thistle-plant almost as tall as 
she is, has caught her fluffy sleeve on the prickly 
stems, with consequent difficulties. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 86 


PURITY We Psat 


uy. ie bv Height, 15 inches; length, 22 inches 


Three-quarter length figure of a_lustrous- -eyed 
young woman, a red rose in her abundant dark hair 
which hangs loose down her back, who stands facing 
three-quarters front, turned slightly toward the left. 
Before her a blossoming lily-plant, one of whose 
blooms she has plucked. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, 1870. 


No. 87 


“WE DON’T SPEAK AS WE PASS BY” 


yy "4 cce- = Height, 23 inches; bape ee Vy y 
- > Y 


An old red schoolhouse stands behind a knoll where 
under a tree, but in the sun, a youth has spread 
himself at length on the turf, his eye following a 
schoolgirl in short skirts who with her eyes studi- 
ously turned away from him is coming forward down 
the decline before a crumbling stone fence. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown. 


No. 88 


GRAND MANAN FISHERMAN 


= ) J Height, 28% inches; ya Canee 
. Seated in his heavy boat and resting on his oa 


is an old fisherman, facing the right, three-quarters 
front, his back to the sun. His broad soft hat 
provides a transparent shadow for his face, and his 
eyes squint in the glare from the water as he re- 
gards something far astern. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown. 


No. 89 
DAY DREAMS 


length, seated on a flowered and grassy bank under 
a light gray sky, her hands crossed in her lap and 
head slightly bent forward as she gazes afar, lost 
in dreams. Her low-necked white dress is belted in 


light blue. 
Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


E Z ae Height, 24 inches; widt 6 i eel hae 
A blond young woman is séen ft three-quarter 


a ee ae a 


No. 90 i 


FISHING—FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY a 
Height, 17 inches; len 1, inches OS a 

4. co 4 YWnn- ey ~VV Wn, 
Ae narrow brook winds amofig stones and boulders — 
through a ravine crossed by a dilapidated rail fence 

at the foot of a sunny hillside. Here a little girl 

in red and white stands fishing—an older com- — 
panion in red and gray watching her. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 91 


“WHOSE DOG AM I?” 
(Water Color) 


i / 2- een Height, 24 inches; te inch 


Lying in the grass amongst ‘scatteréd field fowers — 
is a white, shaggy-haired dog, head up and mouth — 
open, in alert attention, while his youthful master . 
in pink shirt and gray knee breeches squats with | 
one bare leg thrown over him and a caressing, pos- 3 
sessive hand on his neck. 


No. 92 


MAKING A “SOAKER” 


(Water ee. aD ees VELL 


shes 
ae _ Height, 241%, inches; width, 1714 inches 


Hiding behind a stone post at the entrance of a 
brick building after a light snowstorm, a mischiev- 
ous small boy in a striped sweater and red tam- 
o’shanter has rolled a large snowball and crouches, 
awaiting a victim. 


Signed at the lower right, Coprricut, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


: No. 93 


PUZZLING IT OUT 
(Water Color) 


| /S Height, 24 inches; width, 17 on Vike chon 


Seated on his green foot-box, a young bootblack 
in torn black stockings, brown breeches and over- 
coat and red shirt, leaning with his chin on his 
hand, is thinking out what he’s going to do about 
the living problem. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1905, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


ee ees 


Poel iS ee or. 


No. 94 


HIS NEW FRIEND eo bee 
(Water Color) 


Sg wa 4 “-—~ Height, 24 inches; width, 17 ua ee 


An unusually shy-appearing bootblack, seated on his 
blacking-box, holds on his lap a very young white 
puppy and looks studiously at the spectator. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricur, 1903, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 95 


SEE-SAWING 
(Water Color) 


ae 4 +‘— Height, 171% inghes; ily 24 in of 
After the oil etn of the same “99 ae 
solemn surveillance of a white-breasted Maltese cat } 
ensconced on the door-sill of a brown clapboarded 
house, two boys are playing see-saw with a cord as 


they sit barelegged on the gray porch. 
Signed at the lower left, Coprricut, 1907, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 96 | 


THE CONFAB | 
(Water Color) 


L / <i ie caer Height, 17 inches; length, 24 Us ¥ 


An aged grandmother at her knitting in an o 
fashioned rocker has paused for a session with her 
garrulous grandson. He is seated in front of her 
at a window, with his miniature garden tools and a 
toy ship, talking earnestly to her. 


This drawing was made from the oil painting of the same 
title, No. 132 of the collection, for the exhibition of the American 
Water Color Society, held in 1907, and was shown there at that 
time. 


Ve Signed at the lower left, Coryricut, 1907, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 97 
THE SQUIRE 


aay i 2 Height, 30 inches; Oe. in 9 | 
V4 
9 a 


Stout and of complacent eee _ countryman 
of mature years who has served his community in 
local office sits in his shirt sleeves in a strong light, 
which enters the wooden-floored room through an 
open door on the right—the gray unpainted door 
seen in part beyond him as it has swung in, with 
latch-string hanging down. He is gray, with a white 
“brush” beard, cheeks and lips being shaven. Be- 
hind him hangs an old brown coat, above the tin 
water-pail. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 98 
THE VETERAN 


oo Wes 2 Height, 30 inches; th, aifocien f / o 
An old man sits in a squgre armchair, ned the 


spectator and turned slightly to the left, the light 
full upon his face and figure, against a brownish 4 
neutral background. His eyes are sunken but his 
face is swarthy, its warm glow contrasting with his 
white beard and mustache. His clothes are a black- 
ish brown and he wears a gray-brown hat. He holds 
a solacing pipe in one hand and the other rests on 


his stick. 
Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1901. 


No. 99 


TAKING IT EASY 


(ie oe Height, 30 inches; we 5 ae W ; 

An aged farmer with gk? foxehead, ruddy cheeks 
and still keen eyes ready to twinkle, is seated in a 
high-backed wooden rocking chair on his porch 
before his open door, pipe in hand and in his shirt ~ 
sleeves, taking life comfortably. A table with an 
old red coverlet is seen in the dim interior of the 
home, behind him, and green and yellow fields are 
glimpsed beyond the house at the left. A New Eng- 
land type. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1904. 


No. 100 


THOUGHTS OF LONG AGO aeaiah Aon 


o 3 gd ss: Height, 30 inches; width, 25 194 


Leaning back in a comfortable upholstered rocker, 
her knitting dropped m her lap, a white-haired 
woman seated at a window in a rag-carpeted room 
is lost in recollections. Her homespun dress is pro- 
tected by a brown apron, and outside of a pink 
knitted shawl a heavy brown plaid one is thrown 


} about her shoulders. A dinner-bell and a candle- 
: stick are among the things on the clock-shelf over 
| her head. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 101 


“WHEN I WAS YOUNG” 


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| a age: _ Height, 40 inches; width, 311, Beye Mose: 

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A bent man crippled with years, or ere a | 
| gray fringe beneath his chin, stands in slouch hat | 
| and thick overcoat, leaning on a cane and telling | 
: something with a kindly smile to a lusty, handsome | 
| youth in negligee shirt who listens attentively with 
| an expression of interest. 


: Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1910, J. G. Brown, N.A. | 


No. 102 


AMERICAN FARMER 


Height, 35 in idthy-25 inches 
Ph ge Oe Oe ae 


Young and strong-limbed, a clean-faced American — 
with gray trousers thrust into laced brogans stands” 
facing the observer, turned toward the left, three-_ 
quarters front. He stands with his back to the — 
sun in a broad yellowish-green field, leaning on a 
three-pronged pitchfork, his dog beside him. In the — 
distance a gray river traverses a broad valley — 


bounded by broken hills. 
Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 103 


CHORES 
y 2 J oe Height, 30 wy gti ah inches 
Two barefooted boys are prepayjing firewood in the 
bright sunshine near a barn, against one of whose ~ 
sides flowers are growing, in a partly shadowed — 
angle. A red-haired, fat little chap sits on a slender — 
limb, holding it down in the saw-horse, while his — 
older comrade works the large red buck-saw. 


I SENET SENSIS BESTE Seer ta nm : 


ea SANT APS, PS 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


; No. 104 


“WHEN WE WERE BOYS” 1a, 4 
Se Height, 30 inches; width, 25 ae 


Three smiling, healthy, bare-legged young Amer- 
icans in straw hats with ragged brims stand in the 
sunny doorway of a gray clapboard house, each 
eyeing the spectator with individual grin, the left- 
most sucking a straw. Near him a flowering window- 
box comes into view, and at his feet the grass comes 
up through the apertures of the low doorsteps. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 105 


“*TWAS LONG AGO” Fs Layee 
i Gor < Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 


A very old woman, hollow-eyed, with sunken cheeks, 
seated ata doorway ‘between communicating rooms 
with. the light from a neighboring window striking 
upon her, leans back, lonesome, in her rocking chair, 
hands clasped before her breast and looking pa- 
thetically—with a tragic pathos—upward, her 
mouth open in speech. 


Signed at the lower right, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 106 


2-00. Jn 


Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 


THE BELLE OF LONG Boe 


/ Rie and feeble in her rocking chair by the < 
green-shuttered window, her feet on a carpet foot- . 
stool, an aged woman in grandmother’s clothes of 
black, with a white shoulder-wrap and black lace = 
cap, faces the spectator and gazes abstractedly into” 
space. Behind her is a gray wall with figured paper, 
and a table with a variegated coverlet of silk patch- — 
work is at her elbow. wy 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 107 


DEAR OLD GRANNIE 


S17 aS Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 


Kindly faced and wrinkled, her thin straight hair — 
parted over the middle of her high forehead, a grand- _ 
mother sits between two windows in the corner of a — 
wainscoted room with oilcloth-paper walls, busy — 
with her knitting. She has paused momentarily and — ; 
looks toward the spectator. Her black sunbonnet 
hangs on a neighboring chair. . 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 108 


LEAVING HIS NATIVE HILLS 


re Height, 30 inches; width, ,25 cy 
3 Vrtek tn 


A youth in knee-boots, and patched garments part 
outgrown, stands with arms folded, near the stump 
of an old tree, his belongings bundled in an old 
bandanna on the ground, facing front and toward 
the left, looking in studious perplexity into space 
whither he is about to wander. The sun coming 
from the left and behind him throws his face into’ 
; transparent shadow. In the distance is a valley 
: hamlet in front of wooded hills. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


LOCAL NEWS 


| ieee Height, 30 inchesf width, 25 inches 
My 


In front of a green sleig with red jfunners and-with 
a gray robe thrown over it, which’ has been pushed 
into a shadowed corner of a barn, a white haired 
and bearded, gentle-faced farm-owner of New Eng- 
land is seated in a bright light looking up from 
his local newspaper, which he has been reading. At 
his side is his bony brown horse in its stall. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1904, JaG. Brown, N.A. 


3 ou 4 Height, 30 inches; eee a 
Ann 


No. 110 


THE STUDY HOUR (7) ) ae a AGEL “a 


3 y qos ,-_ Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 


His back against the gray plastered wall of the: ‘st 
window seat on which he is perched, with knees up — 
as arm-rests, a clean-cut boy with reddish blond hair ~ 
and wearing red suspenders over a gray shirt, is 
turning the pages of a book with flexible covers. — ia 
Outside, through a window with a cracked pane, are q 
seen the barn and water tank. ‘a 


LORIE en De a NR dene yee se 


rere ety ee 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1905, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 111 


2 SSS at re ee 


READY FOR SEA 


a AS 


Through a small-paned Idw window a ble green 
landscape is glimpsed over a window-box of red- 
blooming flowers. Seated within the embrasure a 
happy boy holds up for admiration a small sail- 
boat model of his making, her canvas up. His ~ 
dog is resting his muzzle against his knee. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 112 


TELLING THE NEWS 


217 2" Height, 25 inches; ing inche G, 
WA fi wheal ie 


In the corner of a gray-walled room, a New Eng- 
land paterfamilias of the country districts, bald 
and with upper lip shaved, his face and head other- 
wise framed in a fringe of refractory hair and short, 
bushy gray beard, is seated in the American glory 
of displayed suspenders, his feet cocked up on the 
window-sill, retailing to the (unseen) family the 
news gathered from a local Vermont sheet. His 
shaving-mug and more or less ornamental hair-comb 
and brush are on a shelf under peacock feathers. 


pe Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 113 


“THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME” 


et ay, ee Height, 25 inches; Dea ead Wn 


“Father” with white occipital locks{/And beard— 
upper lip shaven and crown denuded—is seen in 
profile on the left, looking with happy complacence 
out through a window at the right, past the gray- 
haired woman who sits near him next the geranium 
plant on the window-sill, spectacles pushed up to 
her forehead and knitting dropped to her lap. A 
harmony in gray. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 114 . ; a 
_A DOUBTFUL STORY | a Circ 
own a Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches ; 


Under a picture of Washington in a humble room _ 
curtained with green hollands a merry-faced, stout, 
skeptical old lady in a loose brown dress and bea | 
gingham apron looks over her spectacles ae: | 
at a farm hand in shirt sleeves and a straw hat, — 
who is seated on the corner of a chair near her, tell- _ 
ing her a detailed story and gesticulating with both 
hands. " 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 115 


we eee 

i Pig ee Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches <7 
Having a solitary meal of bread and butter and 
tea, at a small table by a window, is a lonely woman 
past middle life, dressed in gray and brown with ~ 
a brown sunbonnet, and a dark medallion brooch 
clasping a white neckerchief. She leans on one el- 
bow, the other hand in her lap, too listless and lone- 
some to take an interest in food. 7 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., copyrient, 1904. 


No. 116 


INDUSTRIOUS FAMILY H, 
re tp ae Height, 25 inches; length, 30 a $ 


In the sunlight near a weathered hencoop, befor 
the shadowed side of a gray board cottage, a boy 
and two girls are seated on a log which a taller boy 
and a tow-haired girl with two pigtails are sawing 
with a two-handled saw, while a woman watches 
from a doorway. 


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Signed at the lower left, Covpyricur, 1905, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 117 
DEAR OLD SAM 


Height, 30 inches; wic i Wa 


A man worn with years a hregene 

marks of toil upon hin, is eee ona Me atte a 
dark neutral background, facing the spectator, his 
head bent slightly forward and to the right. His 
hands are folded on his lap, his features are sad 
but not unkindly. His old bandanna handkerchief 
lies in his tattered straw hat at his feet. 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


ih tests aera Mie int RA eer btn) 


No. 118 


REVERIES OF A BACHELOR — 


(Lh () <— Height, 30 noha 25 HAR y y a 


Collarless, in his shirt sleeves and old brown clq 
a gray old man clutching a stave cut from a limb 6 © 
seated in a gray room looking dreamily out of a win- ; 
dow, where flowers, sunshine and a neighbor’s home | 
are seen. 


No. 119 


VILLAGE BLACKSMITH he - 


3 y 0 ee Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches : 


Standing at his forge where the fire glows brightly, __ 
and working the bellows, a swarthy, lean man not 
past life’s prime, his back to the daylight, faces 
the right, three-quarters front, and looks at thes 
spectator. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 120 


“WANT A SHINE?” 


6 FY re Height, 23 inches; yy 15 Po. 


A bright animated boy in ay blac shirt and 
brown breeches, carrying a neat-looking bootblack’s 

box stands with legs outspread, the box between his 
knees, with his back against a gray wall, looking 
eagerly and smilingly forward, anxious for work. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricur, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


INO. 121 
SP) SoeRE!’ 


Be 2 y, vs Height, 24 inches; xt Abw - 
A little old-faced boy in gray an lue,“vith a hol 
his stocking but perfectly happy, is all smiles~”as 
he. taps affectionately the baseball catcher’s glove 
which he wears and tells some distant comrade where 


to put the sphere. 
Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 122 


“BUY, Ae RUE ce 
Height, 24 inches; width, 16 inch 


a : Seated on a box half-filled with straws a ip 
glad to turn from his shines to a pleasanter oc 
pation holds on his knee a solemn white pup 
which he hopes to sell. The dog lool with gre 
serfousness at the spectator. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1909, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 123 


DULL TIMES 
LE / a re — Height, 24 inches; width, 16 inches 


One of the bright little “Shine !”? boys has fallen Fr. 
upon poor business, and stands dejectedly against 
a gray wall, his head drooping toward one shoulder, 
looking ponderingly at the spectator—his sympa- — ‘ 
thetic dog close at his knee. x 
Signed at the lower left, Copyricur, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 124 


MONEY NO OBJECT 


\ +E / i “+ Height, 24 inches; width, 16 inches hv WHE 


One of the artist’s favorite happy-natured young 
bootblacks turns his empty pockets inside out but 
looks up smiling just the same. He wears black 
knee breeches and a gray blouse, and is altogether 
a trim little chap. 


Signed at the lower right, Copyricur, 1909, J. G. Brown. 


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No. 125 
“LET’S MAKE UP” ot, “vt ; 
$072 oe Height, 22 inches; width, 20 inche ae 


Happy and smiling, a bright-faced small. boy, his 
bootblacking materials scattered on the sidewalk, 
has squatted on one knee and is seen in profile 
grasping the paw of a white and tan dog he has been 
teasing, which, seated on its haunches, looks severely 
at him. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1903, J. G. Brown. 


No. 126 


OUT OF HIS ELEMENT Yay NA y Bs 
Height, 25 inches; width, 16 inches 


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In front of a gray marble column or pedestal, a 4 
pudgy-faced bootblack in long trousers, coatless and 
with his ragged waistcoat open, stands facing full- a 
front, holding on his shoulders and head his small — a 
dog—who perches very gingerly there and clearly 
doesn’t like the experience. : 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No: ¥27 s 
“LOOK OUT!” Fa. 


oS 8 O° - Height, 24 inches; width, 17 inches 


Beside a heaped-up snowbank in a city street a 
hardy youngster in a red flannel shirt, his overcoat 
thrown open and his feet wrapped in sacking, stands 
holding a snowball in his hand, arm upraised to take 
aim as he smilingly warns somebody to look sharp. 


Inscribed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1905. 


No. 128 


MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR 
3 ps Height, 24 inches; width, 17 inches 


-Bright-faced and sturdy, a young bootblat a 


seated on his box, looking squarely forward a 
scratching his head in perplexity at the task of 
cleaning a very muddy tan shoe which he holds on 
his knee, its equally soiled mate lying at his side. 


Signed at the lower left, Coryricut, 1909, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 129 


“HE WON’T BITE” So paeree ee ahi 


ae of ve Height, 24 inches; width, 17 es 
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A bootblack seated on his upturned kitbox holds in 
leash a black and tan dog, which he also pets with 
his free hand as he reassures some diffident passer- 
by, while the dog looks up with expression pol” 
non-committal. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricur, 1909, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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HIS ONLY SON VV. 4 


o uf (Height, 24 inches; width, 17 inches 


clasps in his arms his pet i while he looks smil- " s 
ingly at the spectator. : 


Signed at the lower left, Coprricut, 1907, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


HIS ONLY FRIEND Yi, 
Height, 24 inches; width, 18 inches 
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A coe little bootblack with whom business has _ 
not been good leans his head disconsolately on his | 
hand, his elbow resting on a dog-box at his side, 
while the dog seated atop of the box looks earnestly _ 
and comprehendingly at him. | 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1906, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No.-182 


THE CONFAB W-S TAN nnvehh_ 


337d “ s- Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches 


An aged grandmother at her knitting in an ald-fash- 
ioned rocker has paused for a session with her gar- 
rulous grandson, who is seated in front of her at a 
window with his miniature garden tools and a toy 
‘ship, talking earnestly. She is gray and in black, 
with a white kerchief, her work-basket behind her; 
he is in blue overalls. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 1338 


FOUR OLD STAGERS oa, ie, g cL, om 


: A Height, 30 inches; length, 40 inches 
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Three old men who have spent a lifetime of labor 
on their farms are seated for a neighborly confab in 
a barn—two on a wheelbarrow—outside the box stall 
of an old white horse who looks on. Each is a type, 
distinct from the others; all are gray, and two are 
in their shirt sleeves. Harness, blankets and sur- 
cingles hang behind them. Their attention is at- 
tracted by something back of the spectator at the 
left, and the light falls broadly from that direction 
on the group. 


Signed at the lower right, Coprricur, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 134 


THE VILLAGE GOSSIP > 
5a 0) we Height, 30 inches; length, 40 inches 


Old and withered but with eye and large ear never 
tired nor tongue idle, a wrinkled woman with rheu- 
matic knuckles has seated herself in a neighbor’s 
house, sunbonnet on lap, and is excitedly telling 
two other women her choicest morsel. One of a 
“maiden aunt” type takes it placidly, a more robust 
and matronly companion hears it with clasped hands 
and mouth open. Apples are ripening on a window 
ledge. 


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Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A, 


No. 185 4 


HARD TO CONVINCE ae Ane 7 
Lt 5, eetgee 30 inches; length, 40 inches nell 


Two solemn old farmers sitting in the barn, one in 
rubber boots, face each other; one with square brow 
and protruding chin—the “twelfth juror” whose 
fellows are obstinate—with raised forefinger is lay- 
ing down all the truth and all the gospel to his 
placid, immobile listener. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 136 


NEARING HOME Te. : op ned 
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ij é ve Height, 40 inches; width, 30 inches 


Coming along a winding path through level green 
fields over which a haze is settling at the approach 
of evening, a clean-shaven young farmer with a 
firmly lined lean face has paused to wave his hand 
in greeting toward his home. In the distance, roll- 


; ing, receding hills. 


Signed at the lower right, Copyricut, 1910, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 137 
STILL COURTING C~f#~Yy Logie 
Soap A) fe -—s- Height, 3114 inches; length, 40 inches 


A gray and bald countryman in the intimate attire 
of “galluses” and patched trousers is seated on a 
lounge, still making an ancient’s love to his old 
flame, who in shawl and apron, wrinkled, spectacled 
and knitting with red yarn, sits there also, facing 
the spectator—and attends to her knitting. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 138 


A BUILDER OF BOATS 5 KD. Y 
ov «< Height, 311% inches; length, 40 inches 


He is a sound-looking old-timer of patient mien, 
the builder of boats, and he sits in his old wooden 
shop with his back against a leather-hinged door, 
tilted back in his chair and looking over his spec- 
tacles at the caller. His tan dog sleeps at his feet 
and the prow of a rowboat with a chain painter 
comes into the picture on the right. | 


Signed at the lower right, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 139 
PARTING FROM OLD. mes ee 


A 3 iS Height, 311, inches; length, 40 inches 


Four farmers white and bent are gathered in a barn, 
one holding the halter of an old white horse he is 
about to lead away toward the open door. Dejec- 
tion is on their faces. A dog squats on the floor. 


Signed at the lower left, Copynicut, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 140 


COUNTRY CRITICS a 2 Wy Sepp. 


IF 4 ve. Height, 30 inches; length, 40 inches 


Three important-looking men advanced in years, of 
the independent American farmer type and the kind 
who don’t scorn a “‘hoss-race,” are seated on boxes 
and a chair against the harness-hung wall of a barn, 
looking with intensely critical expression to the 
right and back of the spectator—presumably 
“measuring up” a horse or a “critter.” One is 
big and full-bearded and wears a gray slouch hat; 
one, broad-faced, has the “‘deacon” mold of whiskers 
circling his cheeks and chin with both lips shaved, 
while the third, partly bald and of the more intel- 
lectual type, wears his white beard neatly trimmed in 
Van Dyck form. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 141 


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MISCHIEF BREWING pote oo 


Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches 


be / 

4 / Y A small rascal in a red jacket with merry ‘“‘devil- 
ment” in his expression is seen in profile whispering 
confidentially to a bootblack comrade some proposal 
for mischief which the listener receives with an ac- 
quiescing smile. A third “Shine!” boy in a yellow 
and black sweater shares in the confidence with an 
approving glance, also smiling. All are seated on 
their boxes. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 142 } 
THE PEACE MAKER Ses oi y 


/ 3 , 1 Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches 


A sinewy chap with a strong, slightly undershot wa 
jaw, in brown, black and gray clothes and wearing __ 
a bright red necktie, stands between two of his fel- 
low bootblacks who are pugnaciously disposed, hold- _ 
ing them back—all three of their kits dropped pre- 
‘cipitately to the sidewalk. | 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 148 : ae 
BUSINESS SUSPENTIGT eee hee ? 


2. G ie Height, 28 inches; width, 20 inches 


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Too happy for work in each other’s company, a 
fat bootblack in blue sweater and overalls and a 
blond newsgirl with a plaid shawl over her shoulders 
are sitting side by side on boxes on the sidewalk, 
having a merry conversation. 


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Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 144 


OLD FRIENDS MUST PART Y\,,, . ee ? Mig 


a ST ‘* Height, 25 inches; width, 22 inches 


Before a gray wooden fence adjoining a brick build- 
ing, a bootblack, his tools thrown to the sidewalk, 
is tugging away a black and white dog while a small 
girl in blue, holding a pink doll, stands by crying. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricur, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. eee , 
“NO CHARGE” , Cappy yh. %. 


Hh 7 0 e+ Height, 25 inches; width, 20 inches 


A chubby-faced bootblack of Italian type, seated on 
his upturned box, his bright red underwear showing 
at the open front of his gray flannel shirt, is inter- 
rupted in his work of polishing a tan shoe by a small 
flower-girl who tantalizingly holds out a nosegay 
for him to sniff. Both are smiling. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyricut, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 146 


TROUBLE AHEAD (Ot ce / 


ji q — Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches 


Two lusty urchins of the street are preparing for 
a fight. One has already thrown down his cap and VS 
coat, opened his shirt bosom and stands with fists 
peneheds a companion tentatively restraining him sa ss 
the other is removing his coat; and a small boot- 
black eggs on the “scrap.” With another boy back _ 
on a doorstep is a little girl holding a teddy-bear, 
and an elderly woman appearing round the corner of __ 
the building holds up her hands in deprecation. _ 


Signed at the lower left, Copyriacut, 1907, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


‘ No. 147 — 


ie GOOD HANDS Cee A Lnchutnl 


a7 a¢ Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches 


Five happy bootblacks, seated on their upturned 
boxes on the flags in front of a gray wall, like an 
arc of minstrels, are playing affectionately with a — 
black and white terrier who is perfectly confident 
that he is among friends. 


Signed at the lower left, Copyriant, 1909, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 148 


“KISS YOUR BROTHER” 7)12 eee 
o¢ ‘“__ Height, 25 inches; length, 30 inches 


Three bootblacks, respectively in dark red, gray 
and light gray shirts, are seated on their kitboxes 
against a gray-plastered brick wall, the center boy 
holding up a black and white pup and approaching 
his pursed lips to the dog’s nose. One of his com- 
panions watches with interest; the other, hand in 
pocket and oblivious, is looking carelessly away. 


Signed at the lower left, Covyricut, 1908, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


: No. 149 

A DETECTIVE STORY ¥ Yuek? 
: $v ec Height, 27 inches; length, 36 Yches 

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Seated in a group, all of them on their tool kits, 

five husky little bootblacks are enjoying an absorb- 
: ing detective story which one of their number is 
reading aloud. He is seated in profile on the left, 
the others circling toward the right and facing him, 
all in knee breeches with different colored shirts. 


Signed at the lower left, Covyricur, 1904, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 150 


THE he EDITION ae ys Aa 


a So Height, 44 inches; width, 32 a 


On a gray day when the mists are caeane betel 
evening, small, eager, shirt-waisted “newsies” a: 
crowding about the open back of a covered news- 
paper delivery wagon which is drawn up under the 


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_ Washington equestrian statue in Union Square, — 
clamoring for their late papers and holding up i, 2 


ready coins. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brow N.A., COPYRIGHT, 


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“SHINE” (nn ie Dus 


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Lf Rar Height, 60 inches; width, 36 inches 1 


A eae American-Italian boy, in brown with a dark 


green cap, is standing on the sidewalk in front of 


a white-plastered brick wall, his bootblack’s kit 


slung from a strap in one hand as he points with the — 


other at the feet of a passer-by (unseen), at whom 
he looks out smilingly from dark, brilliant eyes. 
His white shirt is open at the neck and he wears 
a pink flower carelessly tucked in a buttonhole. 
There is an attractive quality in this painting, in 
the apparel and especially in the wall. 

Signed at the lower left, Covynicut, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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“BE MINE” | ea Z MN VAVErts 
. f ard ‘ss Height, 40 inches; length, 60 inches 


Before the whitish-gray stones of a foundation or 
basement wall, a white-breasted red-brown setter on 
its haunches looks with all but judicial impartiality 
toward the spectator, posed between a recumbent 
bootblack who pinches its ear enticingly, and ‘his 
rival comrade who kneels at the dog’s other ear 
murmuring pleasantly with hands crossed on his 
breast in mock-amatory inveiglement. A brown 
canine case of “How happy I could be——.” 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 153 Bi 
THE SIDEWALK DANCE Vr ~ 


/30 +s Height, 46 inches; length, 60 inches 


In front of the artist’s Forty-second Street home— 
with gray walls and brown blinds and doors, as it 
appears here on a bright but hazy day—a numerous 
group of children of the neighborhood, more girls 
than boys, are happily dancing to the tune of an 
Italian organ-grinder who stands turning his crank 
at the curb, his open red-lined cap held out for 
coins from householders. At the basement steps a 
woman holds up a baby, and at an open window a 
young mother sits looking out and a little girl stands 
looking over the sill. The dress of the children is 
white and pink, red, brown, gray and green, and 
. the group is in a strong light. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


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No. 154 


THE GANG VV IG ae NDmvell 


Gapeds ve Height, 40 Ocha: length, 60 inches 


“The gang” of old New York streets in its in- 
cipiency—or its reflex effect—young street boys in — 
a band of a dozen or more coming along with cares 
smiles or studied impudence of expression, armed 
with broomstick-clubs and tin cans and monopoliz- _ i 
ing the sidewalk, following a self-constituted leader 
doing the Lilliputian heroic. The street in the dis- 
tance is in a gray haze—with an ice wagon at the — 
curb and sundry ambulatory and loitering citizens. 
Some of the imps are shouting, and one almost 
hears from a misty window the old-time ballad, 
“Sure me heart is broke—God knows it is—Since 
Teddy j’ined the gang!” a 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. 


No. 155 


HEELS OVER HEAD 6 aa ipa Sern. 


; i AO e* Height, 40 inches; length, 60 inches 


A canvas of fourteen figures, bootblacks and others, 
all small boys of New York’s streets, each carefully 
and individually studied. In a broad circling group 
spread along the sidewalk, one or two seated on 
their “Shine!” boxes, the rest standing upright, 
lolling on each other’s shoulders against the wall, 
or bent forward with hands on knees, they are watch- 
ing one of their number poised on his hands with 
his heels in the air, his kit in front of him. He is 
bare-legged, in black knee breeches and a pink shirt. 
His comrades look on with unfeigned interest, some 
smiling in pleasure and ready to applaud. Over a 
gray-white board fence behind them, above which 
a green tree appears, clothes are drying on a line 
leading to a building with rosy walls, and at the left 
on the street is a green door. 


Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A.,.1894. 


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